I really can’t get over the sustained northern offset of the monsoon trough right now. Tropical waves are even at this point forming in the middle of the Sahara.

The Hadley cell over Africa is still over amplified and therefore will continue to shove the wave train into the Sahara, which is causing record breaking rainfalls there.
As long as the 200mb temperatures over Iberian Peninsula stay’s at such high levels the African Hadley cell is going to stay morphed latitudinally.
And these well above average 200mb temps in the subtropics certainly isn't helping with instability, this plus and now a suppressive phase MJO now in play is why models went from hurricane Gordon to naked swirl Gordon.

This has got to be one of the most least eventful northern hemisphere TC seasons since 2013. Obviously though storms like Beryl and Haiyan could’ve preferably not have occurred.
At least the good news is we now have at least 2 ways a season busting black swan event can happen.
2013, THC shut down leading to low salinity causing poor ocean heat content and anomalously southern based jet stream triggering “spring like” conditions over the Atlantic. So despite 14 NS forming, all but 2 became hurricanes, minimal ones at that due to most being constantly sheared apart allowing for dry air intrusions.
2024, record breaking anomalously warm 200mb TPs over the Atlantic and Iberian Peninsula causing stability issues and more importantly the Hadley cell over Africa to become hyper stretched latitudinally. Leading to the over extension of the monsoon trough northward, causing tropical waves to form deep into the Sahara. This is responsible for historic amounts of rain and flooding in the middle of the desert. Obviously it has rained heavily in the Sahara in the recent past, but not like this. (
https://www.livescience.com/planet-...nnected-to-a-calmer-atlantic-hurricane-season)

Extremely low SSP in the Sahara led by extension +NAO regime led to cooling of the Canary current which further led to instability issues and is also responsible for the dragging of the ITCZ (and possibly the monsoon trough) too far north.